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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Music to my dudes

Remember this doodle I posted way back in 2006?

I drunkely scrawled it as a birthday card for Steve Beddell on his 24th birthday rock show at the Arts Club.

Well, 8 years later, Steve and I are still pals, and he's got a fantastic solo project called Wooden Horseman, which you can check out at www.woodenhorsemanmusic.com

I saw him play a few times and was always blown away by this song called "Black Hair" about a weird girl he knew who climbed up a tree in the middle of the night, and fell out, only to avoid breaking her neck from the height by getting impaled on a branch. I am going to assume she recovered.

Last Friday night I spontaneously met up with Davin in Trout Lake park at 2am after a night shift at Benny's. We climbed up a tree to about 30 feet up, which was exhilarating, but I was terrified Davin was going to fall out because he was total drunk!

Sitting in the crook of the tree with the moonlight, and his black hair and black eyes, I though about people falling out of trees and I thought, "woah, this is just like Steve's song!"

The next day I did this little painting

The words to the song are:

Black hair on black eyes

She looks away from the sunlight

Climb in her heart like a gold mine

Climbing a tree at midnight

Drawn to the crease

that you folded in me.

I think I might move the lyrics down to the bottom of the painting and build up some more layers. Go buy the song on iTunes and support my pals, ok?